ACGME announces 2010 Courage to Teach and Courage to Lead honorees
Annual awards honor outstanding program directors and distinguished designated institutional officials

CHICAGO, Sept. 25, 2009 – The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has chosen the 2010 Courage to Teach Award and Courage to Lead Award recipients.

The Courage to Teach Award – named after Parker J. Palmer, PhD, who wrote the Courage to Teach and other books on teaching and vocation – is presented annually to 10 notable program directors. The Courage to Lead Award is given annually to three outstanding designated institutional officials (DIOs), who are the officials responsible for directing all graduate medical education activities at a sponsoring institution.

The Courage to Lead and Courage to Teach awardees are invited to attend the 2010 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where they will be honored at an awards luncheon and presented with a plaque and check for $1,000. They will also be invited to attend a retreat next May at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

The following physicians have been named the 2010 Courage to Teach awardees:

• Ramesh Ayyala, MD, ophthalmology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• John Frohna, MD, pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, Wisconsin
• Michael Hart, MD, surgery, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
• Ronald Maier, MD, surgical critical care, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
• Eileen Reynolds, MD, internal medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston,  Massachusetts
• Michael Rhodes, MD, family medicine, Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Provo, Utah
• Gregory Rouan, MD, internal medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Philip Shayne, MD, emergency medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
• Prathibha Varkey, MD, preventive medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Diane Wayne, MD, internal medicine, McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

The following physicians have been named Courage to Lead awardees:

• Arnold Eiser, MD, (small institution), Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Norman Ferrari III, MD, (medium institution), West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
• Mark Juzych, MD, (large institution), Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits approximately 8,500 residency programs in 127 specialties and subspecialties educating 108,000 residents. Its mission is to improve health care by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians’ education through accreditation.